Dinner sets should be white and white only. AIBU?

[Plugitinthen]

I’ll give you a pass for off white.

Please someone tell me they also remember when the woman posted her roast dinner on a clear see through plate? #wistful

Not currently used, but around the era of eternal beau, I had a johnson brothers Summerfield set - coveted it for ages, and used it for a long while, added serving dishes etc (never the glasses, yuk).
Its white, with a black line around the rim and pink roses with grey stems.
Importantly, the food stays on the white bits.
It was the 1980s - my entire flat was pink and grey.

Calm down Hyacinth

Gosh! Is this still going on ? We've practically made a meal out of the thread.

James Willmott Brown served up coffee in those flat dark green cups with the gold rim (white inside) ...

Oh I remember those 70isalimitnotatarget (and The Pier), I aspired to own those desperately but never achieved my dream

I’ve got some Botanic Garden notwiththeseknees. I like it, especially the matching but different effect. I have a shocking amount of china, very little of which is white. Off to make coffee in my weekend cup.

To all those who keep their Denby for best, please don't. Use it every day. It's sturdy stuff. Another one with Imperial Blue here. Ours has survived 30 years of 3 boys childhood and adolescence,with minimal damage.

If you love it, use it.

Black? BLACK?

Where does one purchase such a thing

IKEA my dear 😂

I have some coloured Ikea plates. They have lasted quite a long time but are gradually being disposed of with chips or accidents. I plan replace with Ikea 365. It's sleek, porcelain thus hardwearing (stoneware, unless Denby, invariably chips despite sounding as if it's tough) and gloriously white!

We have black bowls. Can't remember where we got them but it definitely wasn't IKEA as they pre-date IKEA being a 'thing'. Our plates are green. I inherited them from my grannie, they must be 60 years old if they're a day.

@AndNoneForGretchenWieners I have the Denny Azure too! I love it, but the side plates are tiny.

@DidgeDoolittle totally agree! I have lost track of the amount of times I’ve dropped mine and it can survive - has always survived wood laminate and has even bounced on stone tiles!

I have some green and some an aubergine colour 😂

Ours are Royal Doulton ‘Bowls of Plenty’. I love them

Actually, all white sets remind me of mismatched uni loads. When DH and I moved in together we brought with us a raft of ‘almost but not quite matching’ white dishes from a decade each of house shares. A matching set seems far nicer to me!

Mine are 1960s pyrex with red roses on white. They weigh a ton but they're very pretty and indestructible.

I don't care what colour or shape they are as long as they're not that matt earthenware that makes the cutlery sound like nails on a chalkboard .

(My Mum had some square plates - oh how we laughed at the "square meal" joke. Every single time.)

Off to make coffee in my weekend cup.

I have a weekend cup too!

We commissioned some handmade ceramic plates last year, they are an off white and quite a matte glaze. So beautiful, each not quite perfect as hand made and much better than our shiny old white set

@butterry ok you win with your commissioned plates. The other poster with the coat of arms nearly swung it.

Actually some of the patterned stuff you lot have posted is quite nice.

Not black though. Never black.

We commissioned some handmade ceramic plates last year

I love Mumsnet!

@GirlDownUnder my mum has those white ones with blue splotches; I really like them!

@Soconfusedandlost a cafe my mum used to use when we were little (and still does now) used to have those coffee cups. I found some on Amazon!

Smoked Coffee Cups

I use Willow pattern and Indian Tree china for everyday. I use my Portmeirion Holly and Ivy during December.

Square plates and bowls were all the rage a few years ago and I hated that trend so much. I swear nothing tastes the same off a square plate .

Ours are all white, DH wouldn’t have it any other way. I bought some lovely ones with a sort of subtle blush pink rim which I really liked and DH was absolutely disgusted.

Food looks so much better on a white plate. The same food on a dark blue plate is not appetising. Donnt get me on pieces of slate aaargh

However we also have other blue and white patterns including some Willow Pattern which you CANNOT object to because IT IS THE PLATE LAW.

Unfortunately, this is true.

Willow Pattern, no matter how vile and ubiquitous seems to have a "get out of jail free" card when it comes to criticism.

I bloody hate it myself, but everywhere I go I seem to be surrounded with the stuff.

Soup is round

YES!